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 DISCOURSE 
 
 TO 
 
 IEDICAL STUDENTS
 
 ^Discourse 
 
 TO 
 
 MEDICAL STUDENTS 
 
 PREACHED IN EDINBURGH ON 
 ist DECEMBER 1889 
 
 In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. 
 GENESIS 1. i. 
 
 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed. 
 PSALM 119. 80. 
 
 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even 
 both of them. PROVERBS 20. 12. 
 
 This is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only 
 true God, and Jesus Christ -whom thou hast sent. 
 JOHN 17. 3. 
 
 Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. 
 JOHN 20. 29. 
 
 / have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, 
 and the word of God abide th in you, and ye have 
 overcome the wicked one. i JOHN 2. 14. 
 
 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: 
 he that acknowledged the Son hath the Father also. 
 i JOHN 2. 23. 
 
 EDINBURGH 
 R. W. HUNTER, 19 GEORGE IV. BRIDGE 
 
 GLASGOW: DAVID BRYCE & SON 
 ABERDEEN: A. & R. MILNE 
 
 1892
 
 Contents 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Occasion and Object of this Discourse, .... 5 
 
 The Gospel, .......... 6 
 
 Paul's Preaching, ........ 7 
 
 Defective Theology, ....... 8 
 
 The School of Christ, 8 
 
 The Principles of the Doctrine of Christ, ... 9 
 
 Adaptation to Circumstances, ...... 10 
 
 Need of Skill, 10 
 
 Young Men, ......... 1 1 
 
 The Season of Youth, ....... 12 
 
 Worldliness, 12 
 
 The One Way of Salvation, . . . . . . 15 
 
 Intellectual Differences, ....... 16 
 
 Academic Temptations and Advantages, . '. . . 17 
 
 Bright Prospects, 18 
 
 The Students' Union, . . . . . . . 19 
 
 Hospital Work, ........ 19 
 
 God and God's Claims, ....... 20 
 
 Incitements to Ungodliness, . . . . . . 21 
 
 Physical Science, . . 22 " 
 
 Scientific Research, . . . . . . 23
 
 Contents. 
 
 2117321 
 
 FACE 
 
 The Results of Scientific Progress, ..... 24 
 
 Twofold Injury to the Interests of Religion, ... 24 
 
 Scientific Religion, ....... 25 
 
 Relation between Science and Theology, ... 26 
 
 Anatomy and Physiology, ...... 28 
 
 Evolution, ......... 30 
 
 Demonstration and Conjecture, . . . . . 31 
 
 Geology, -33 
 
 The First Chapter of Genesis, ...... 34 
 
 ''Wonderful in Counsel, and Excellent in Working/ . 35 
 
 The Human Body, 36 
 
 Illustrative Poetry, . . . . . . . . 36 
 
 Conclusion, 37. 
 
 Theology and Faith, ....... 39 
 
 Adoration, . . , . . ... . . 40.
 
 SINCE this Discourse was written and delivered in 
 1889, it has, with a view to its present publication, 
 been extended in some particulars, so that, in its printed 
 form, it contains a few pages more than the number 
 occupied by the contents of the original manuscript. 
 
 While the practice of giving long sermons may not 
 be good as a rule, the giving of a long sermon occasion- 
 ally, in special circumstances, may be good as an 
 exception. Hence the peculiar occasion and wide scope 
 of this discourse, and the fact that it was intended 
 expressly for University Students, appeared to warrant 
 the extending of it to about the length of an ordinary 
 College Lecture. 
 
 D.J. 
 
 EDINBURGH, 
 Thursday, \-]th September 1891.
 
 DISCOURSE 
 
 TO 
 
 flfeebical Stubents 
 
 PREACHED IN BUCCLEUCH CHURCH, EDINBURGH, ox 
 THE EVENING OF THE FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER 1889. 
 
 PSALM 139. 14. / -will praise thec ; for I am fearfidly and 
 wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works ; and that my 
 soul knoweth right we II. 
 
 Occasion ano Ofijccf of fflte tecoum. 
 HAVING many years ago, when a young man, 
 taken part of the medical curriculum, and having 
 retained unabated my deep interest in medical 
 students and their studies, I longed, when spending 
 a few days in Edinburgh last Spring, for an 
 opportunity of addressing medical students on 
 the most delightful and momentous of all subjects. 
 When this was mentioned to some medical friends, 
 they suggested that such an opportunity might be 
 had during the present session. Hence it is that 
 we are assembled here this evening to devote a 
 little while to the worship of God, and to medita- 
 tion on His written word. Accordingly, while 
 all who choose to attend are welcome, yet this 
 is a discourse designed specially for Students of 
 Medicine, by one who has a fellow feeling with 
 them, and who cannot but regret that, by being
 
 6 Discourse to Medical Students. 
 
 settled far away from a University town, he was 
 prevented from completing his medical course 
 of study. 
 
 In connection with the preaching of the word on 
 special occasions, it is highly important, be the 
 audience who they may, whether literary men, or 
 students of science, or merchants, or workmen, 
 that the truths of the Gospel should be set forth 
 with clearness and simplicity, yet so as to enlist the 
 special interest of those for whom the discourse is 
 primarily intended. Thus did the Apostles adapt 
 their preaching to those whom they addressed. 
 (Acts 10. 27-48, i Corinthians 9. 19-23.) 
 
 And what ought we to place in the forefront of 
 our meditations at this time ? Many and various 
 are the topics which bear on the wide subject of 
 religion. One might speak on Theism, on Natural 
 Theology, on Materialism or Spiritualism, on 
 Science and Revelation, or on various other 
 topics, and yet all the while be so occupied with 
 the husk as to neglect the kernel, or so taken 
 up with abstruse theories or abstract speculations 
 as to darken counsel by words without knowledge. 
 The speaker, however fluent or voluble, might thus 
 miss the mark, and give no ray of light to any 
 earnest inquirer, saying, as he longed for a know- 
 ledge of God and of God's truth, N Oh that I knew 
 where I might find Him that I might come even 
 to his seat !" Job 23. 3. 
 
 Well may we keep before us the Saviour's 
 memorable words, when he lifted up his eyes to 
 Heaven, and said : N This is life eternal, that they
 
 Paul in Athens and in Route. 
 
 might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus 
 Christ whom thou hast sent." It was not to one 
 of the obscure. and unlearned of the community, 
 but to a man of high standing and culture among 
 the Jews a Pharisee a Teacher of Israel, that 
 Jesus declared, s Marvel not that I said unto thee, 
 Ye must be born again/ John 3. 7. 
 
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 And when we pass from the Master to his 
 disciples, we find them following in his footsteps. 
 What was it that fired the great Apostle of the 
 Gentiles with burning zeal when he looked 
 forward to visiting the imperial city of Rome? 
 It was not that he might gaze on Rome's 
 magnificence, or achieve distinction in Roman 
 literature. But it was that, in Rome as elsewhere, 
 he might proclaim that Gospel of Christ of which 
 he was not ashamed, and which is the power of 
 God unto salvation to every one that believeth. 
 Among the learned Athenians also, whose literary 
 and philosophical superiority even their powerful 
 Roman conquerors acknowledged, the Apostle 
 Paul preached Jesus and the Resurrection. This 
 was the subject of his address to the philosophers 
 of the Epicureans and the Stoics. The Faith in 
 Christ was likewise the theme on which he spoke 
 at Cesarea to the Roman Governor Felix. And 
 to the Church planted in the stirring and wealthy, 
 yet dissolute city of Corinth, he wrote, N We preach 
 Christ crucified to Jews a stumbling-block, and to 
 Greeks foolishness, but to them who arc called, 
 both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God 
 and the wisdom of God." (i Corinthians 1. 23-24.)
 
 S Christ Crucified. 
 
 Recurring to this fundamental feature of his 
 ministry, he says a little further on in his first 
 Epistle to the Corinthian Church, N I did not 
 determine to know among you anything but 
 Jesus Christ and Him crucified/ They who, in 
 their own souls, realise the heavenly power of the 
 Cross, and live from day to day in consequent 
 happy communion with God, may well appreciate 
 what the Apostle adds as a sequel to his mag- 
 nanimous determination, N My speech and my 
 preaching were not with enticing words of man's 
 wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and 
 of power, that your faith should stand, not in the 
 wisdom of men, but in the power of God/ 2. 2-5. 
 
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 And so it is that, be the skill and logical acumen 
 with which a theologian expounds and argues his 
 subject what they may, yet, if his theology takes 
 little or no account of the great fact that the Son 
 of Man came, not to be ministered unto, but to 
 minister, and to give his life a ransom for many 
 came to bear our sins in his own body on the 
 tree came to seek and to save that which was 
 lost, his theology must prove fundamentally 
 defective, like the house built on the sand. 
 
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 The same Gospel truths which demand the 
 acceptance of the simplest, the obscurest, the 
 least talented, and the most unlearned among the 
 children of toil, demand the acceptance of the
 
 The School of Christ. 9 
 
 greatest statesmen, the most accomplished scholars, 
 and the most distinguished men of science. Here- 
 in ^ there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond 
 nor free, neither male nor female ; but all are one 
 in Christ Jesus/ As it has become a trite maxim 
 that there is no royal road to learning, so it may 
 be similarly observed that in the School of Christ 
 there is, in so far as the cardinal doctrines of 
 Christianity are concerned, no room for social, 
 or educational, or scientific distinctions. To one 
 and all, the divine Redeemer addresses the gra- 
 cious invitation, "* Learn of me, for I am meek and 
 lowly in heart ; and ye shall find rest unto your 
 souls." To one and all he makes the uncompro- 
 mising announcement, N Verily I say unto you, 
 Except ye be converted, and become as little 
 children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of 
 Heaven/ Matthew 11. 29 ; 18. 3. 
 
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 As in literature those who have attained to the 
 highest distinction began with the alphabet, and 
 advanced, through the stages of reading and 
 grammar, to their respective positions of literary 
 eminence, so in like manner, while there are 
 degrees in Christian attainments and eminence, 
 star differing from star in glory, yet all the blood- 
 bought trophies of redeeming grace begin by 
 accepting and acting on the faithful saying that 
 s Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, 
 of whom,'' says the Apostle Paul in language of 
 holy humility, H I am chief/ I Timothy 1. 15. 
 
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 i o Discrimination and Skill. 
 
 (o (Ctrcutnefancca. 
 And yet it is of incalculable importance that 
 differences in position and circumstances and 
 training should be discreetly taken into account 
 in order that the truths of the Gospel may be 
 adequately set forth with special adaptation to 
 each particular case. What suits the capacities 
 of many humble, earnest, unlettered, Christians, 
 and is relished by them as a clear and interesting 
 exposition of Gospel truth, might, by Christians 
 of different standing and attainments and mental 
 calibre, be viewed as a series of platitudes, thread- 
 bare, and bald, and uninteresting. So likewise 
 what might suit the tastes of cultured learners 
 in the School of Christ might, however evangelical 
 and edifying, be far beyond the grasp of intelligent 
 Christians differently circumstanced in habits and 
 in training. How important then is it that they 
 who, as heralds of the Cross, are set for the defence 
 of the Gospel should follow the example of the 
 wise man of old, of whom it is written, " The 
 Preacher sought to find out acceptable words ; and 
 that which was written was upright, even words of 
 truth/ Ecclesiastes 12. 10. 
 
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 Herein skill is needed in both directions, whether 
 milk or strong meat be the appropriate food. 
 Skill is needed for suiting the preaching of the 
 Word to the capacities of children as well as for 
 making it interesting and edifying to the members 
 of scientific societies and such other learned 
 associations as from time to time assemble in our
 
 Bright prospects of usefulness. \ \ 
 
 large towns and cities. And so it behoves him 
 who now addresses you to realise the position 
 in which he has placed himself on the present 
 occasion, and to seek, through God's help, to 
 make a proper use of this opportunity. Well 
 might I be ashamed and grieved if, having induced 
 you to give me your presence here, I should fail 
 to deliver God's message in a way suited to your 
 age, your academic position, and that noble pro- 
 fession to which you have devoted yourselves. 
 Young in years, you have bright prospects of 
 usefulness before you, such as, if you are on the 
 Lord's side, will give you a powerful influence for 
 good in his service, and in your application of the 
 healing art to the needs of the sick, the infirm, 
 and the suffering. Thus even in the midst of your 
 professional duties, you may show that, while you 
 care for the body, you do not overlook the needs 
 of the soul. 
 
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 . And here permit me, before referring to your 
 special position as medical students, to address 
 you for a few minutes simply as young men. 
 Looking wistfully back to the time when my own 
 age was what yours now is, I could almost wish, 
 in coming among you, to get the days of youth 
 back again, and thus to be, in respect of years, 
 one of yourselves. But though this is impossible, 
 it is my wish to maintain as warm and friendly 
 an acquaintance with the young as if, in age, 
 there were no difference. This point may be here 
 noticed that we who are seniors have been what
 
 12 Youthful Vigour. 
 
 you now are, whereas you have not yet been what 
 we are. Seeing then that, though you have not 
 yet felt what it is to be old or middle-aged, we 
 have experienced what it is to be young, we ought 
 to enter heartily into the feelings and aspirations 
 of young men, and to accommodate ourselves 
 more readily and thoroughly to you than you may 
 be expected to accommodate yourselves to us. 
 
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 The sunny season of youth has advantages, 
 temptations, and enjoyments of its own. It has a 
 buoyancy of spirit, a freshness and sprightliness 
 a freedom of action a vigour of body and of mind 
 on which erelong the tear and wear of advancing 
 years are apt to tell. 
 
 H When thou wast young/ said the risen Saviour 
 to the penitent Peter, ^thou girdedst thyself, and 
 walkedst whither thou wouldest." But evanescence 
 characterises youthful vigour. If your life be 
 spared, you will soon find that you are no longer 
 young, but have arrived at or passed your prime. 
 How then ought you to act while you have your 
 present vigour, and ere the dew of your youth has 
 evaporated and given place to the features char- 
 acteristic of riper years ? 
 
 The god of this world and worldly-minded pro- 
 fessors of Christianity may answer the question by 
 putting eternity and God's claims to your obedi- 
 ence on the background, and telling you to give 
 yourselves no concern in the meantime about such
 
 God or Mammon. \ 3 
 
 things, but to be gay and fashionable, exercising 
 no self-restraint, and regardless as to whether your 
 doings are profitable or unprofitable, pleasing to 
 God or displeasing to Him. In this way, if a young 
 man halts between two opinions, hesitating whom 
 to serve, whether God or Mammon, if he leads a 
 thoughtless irreligious life, ignoring God's demands, 
 and giving himself up to dissipation, he is excused 
 on account of his youth ; and, perchance, a hope 
 is carelessly expressed that he will improve as he 
 becomes older. Allowance is thus made for the 
 young to conform to the unhallowed fashions of 
 their neighbours, indulging in such fleshly lusts 
 as war against the soul, and, like the Roman 
 Governor Felix, of whom it is recorded by Taci- 
 tus that he exercised the power of a king in the 
 spirit of a slave, putting off till what is called a 
 convenient season all concern about righteousness, 
 temperance, and judgement to come. In fact the 
 advice which easy-going nominal professors of 
 religion give to the young may be summed up in 
 the words of Ecclesiastes 11. 9, first section. 
 
 The world, with its pomp and pageantry and 
 painted face and gaudy retinue, as it accosts the 
 young, and seeks to make them proud of their 
 youth and sprightliness, and to fascinate them with 
 its gilded allurements, says with siren voice, * Re- 
 joice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart 
 cheer thee in the days of thy youth ; and walk in 
 the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine 
 eyes/ Yet here the world, in its one-sidedncss and 
 prejudice, stops. It has not the candour to pro- 
 ceed further ; whereas the Preacher, intrusted with
 
 14 Early Consecration. 
 
 a message of heavenly wisdom, adds the warning 
 words which the men of the world and the god of 
 the world would fain say nothing about, s But 
 know thou that for all these things God will bring 
 thee into judgement/ God's written word is thus 
 directly antagonistic to the hollow and unsatis- 
 factory views of worldly-minded men. While 
 they suggest that it will be time enough in riper 
 years to devote one's-self to the service of one's 
 Maker, the Scriptures represent the season of 
 youth as the best time for receiving God's pardon, 
 and entering on his service, and partaking of the 
 Bread and the Water of Life, and gaining the 
 victory. H I have written unto you, young men,' 
 says the Apostle John, ^ because ye are strong ; 
 and the Word of God abideth in you ; and ye 
 have overcome the wicked one/ 
 
 Accordingly, without denying that even at the 
 eleventh hour mercy may be obtained by a peni- 
 tent, hoary-headed sinner, who has withheld the 
 best and the longest part of his life from his 
 Creator, and has wasted it in the unhallowed 
 service of the world, this we may say, that, if 
 you now consecrate yourselves to the Lord, ancj 
 heartily serve Him with the freshness of your 
 youth and the vigour of your prime, you will 
 realise a deep-toned joy incomparably superior 
 to any which might possibly be obtained later on 
 in x life's little day," even a heavenly joy which 
 is unspeakable and full of glory.
 
 Intellectual and Social Differences. 
 
 One Qag of J&aftafton. 
 
 As already noticed, there is but one way of 
 salvation for mankind, without distinctions of 
 colour, or age, or sex, or education, or social posi- 
 tion. H Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends 
 of the Earth, for I am God, and there is none else/ 
 ^ I am the Way and the Truth and the Life ; no 
 one cometh to the Father but through me." 
 
 Saving faith, belief in Jesus, acceptance of his 
 righteousness, peace through the blood of his 
 cross, happy child-like communion with Father, 
 Son, and Holy Spirit, are essentially the same 
 for the learned and the unlearned, for the most 
 distinguished and the most obscure, for men of 
 high scientific attainments, like that star of 
 the first magnitude, Sir Isaac Newton, or like 
 such eminent scientists as Michael Faraday, and 
 Sir David Brewster, and Professor Forbes, and 
 many others deceased or still living, and, on the 
 other hand, for poor lowly Christians, like Cowper's 
 
 cottager who weaves at her own door, 
 Pillow and bobbins all her little store : 
 Content, though mean, and cheerful if not gay, 
 Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, 
 . Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night 
 Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light, 
 
 Receives no praise, but (though her lot be such, 
 Toilsome and indigent) she renders much 
 Just knows and knows no more, her Bible true, 
 A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, 
 And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes 
 Her title to a treasure in the skies.
 
 1 6 Temptations of Learning. 
 
 tffmncce. 
 
 But yet, in some important respects, what a vast 
 difference there is between her faith and theirs, and 
 between her faith and yours, if you have believed 
 in Jesus as she did, and have surrendered your- 
 selves to Him, to be altogether His \ 
 
 She has no scope for the distractions of am- 
 bition, and stands in no danger of being dazzled 
 by the pride of life, or seduced by the deceitfulness 
 of riches. She is perplexed by no oppositions of 
 science falsely so-called, nor by the demonstrated 
 facts of true science, as discovered and published 
 either by devout Christian scientists, or by men 
 who, while they are masters of the science, do yet 
 ignore or misinterpret God's written word, and 
 treat with indifference his claims to their homage. 
 No human system of philosophy confronts her: 
 no ingenious but unproved theories of scientific 
 speculators cast their dark shadows across her 
 path, whispering that the book she reads and 
 loves is a collection of anachronisms, or plati- 
 tudes, unworthy of credit, beneath the notice of 
 the learned, and fit only for the entertainment of 
 simpletons and fools. No materialistic arguments 
 suggest to her the idea that mind is but a modi- 
 fication of matter that the soul is a mere develop- 
 ment of the body, and that accordingly there is 
 no such thing as absence from the body and 
 presence with the Lord, no such thing as the 
 resurrection of the dead, and the judgement to 
 come, and the second death, and the life ever- 
 lasting. She felt her spiritual poverty, her
 
 Greatness and Humility. \ 7 
 
 sinfulness, her lost condition, and found in Him 
 who came to seek and to save that which was 
 lost the very Saviour she needed ; and so she 
 accepted the offers of his mercy, and adorned 
 herself with the robe of his righteousness, and 
 became enriched with the treasures of his grace, 
 and learned in the spirit of adoption to say to 
 Him who made her, Abba, Father. 
 
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 On the other hand, while the blessedness just 
 described may be yours as well as Jiers, how unlike, 
 'in many respects, are her circumstances \a yours, 
 you are plied by temptations and allurements 
 such as were unknown to her. Yet this very fact 
 will give to your Christianity, if you are Christians, 
 a strength and a magnanimity for which there is 
 no scope in her case, and will surround your 
 acceptance of the Gospel and your devotion to 
 the service of your Creator with a halo of special 
 brightness. The greater a man's mental powers, 
 and scientific attainments, and intellectual emin- 
 ence, and moral triumph over incentives to religious 
 indifference, or agnosticism, the grander is his 
 standing as a Christian, when he humbles himself, 
 and is converted, and becomes as a little child. 
 There are difficulties in the way of his doing this 
 which are not in the way of the cottager aforesaid. 
 Accordingly, the moral and religious victory is 
 correspondingly greater in his case than in hers. 
 
 Hence, if you firmly and successfully resist all 
 temptations and allurements to let religion alone, 
 
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 1 8 True Joy. 
 
 or to become devotees of those vain and unbeliev- 
 ing speculations which are so popular and fashion- 
 able in the present day, and are often spoken of 
 as broad, and noble, and liberal (their shallowness 
 and sophistry being left out of account), and if 
 you can declare to humble Christians of her stamp 
 that, in this all-important matter, you and they 
 occupy common ground, and are one in Christ 
 Jesus, and that doubt and unbelief have no charms 
 for you, and if with the Apostle Paul you can say, 
 in language of Christian humility and manliness, 
 ^ We have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might 
 be justified by the faith of Christ," then verily, in 
 the prosecution of your studies, you may, with all, 
 the greater zest and relish, devote yourselves to the 
 scientific investigation of the works of Him whom 
 you have learned to adore and love and serve as 
 your Creator, your Father, and your Friend. 
 
 Be it yours then, as devoted Christians, to stand 
 fast in the full assurance of faith, and resolute in the 
 service of Him who has a claim to all we are and 
 all we have. Thus will you realise a deep-toned 
 joy which none can take from you. The World is 
 all before you in a very different style from that in 
 which Milton represents it as having been before 
 our first parents when they were driven out of H Para- 
 dise, so late their happy seat/ Without discussing 
 the forbidden pleasures of sin, and those worldly 
 enjoyments on which one cannot reasonably ask 
 and expect God's blessing, it may be said that,
 
 Pleasant Surroundings. 19 
 
 with health and youth on your side, and with 
 intensely interesting themes for investigation, and 
 splendid opportunities of usefulness, and such 
 ample facilities for study and recreation as were 
 unknown a century or even half a century ago, 
 you may see before you the world in its best and 
 brightest phases. You may thus dwell in the midst 
 of social and scientific sunshine, with rare facilities 
 for the prosecution of your interesting researches, 
 and for the acquisition of knowledge and skill in 
 the noble profession which you have chosen. 
 
 ' (Union. 
 
 You share with the other students of the Uni- 
 versity the advantages and amenities of that 
 valuable social institution which has been added 
 this session to the numerous enhancements of 
 College life in Edinburgh. And while, without 
 either moroseness or cant, one might wish that 
 the inaugural proceedings on so memorable an 
 occasion had been begun with prayer to Almighty 
 God for his presence and his blessing, those who 
 have your best interests at heart may well con- 
 gratulate you on possessing in the Students' Union 
 a valuable incentive to zeal and cheerfulness in 
 the vigorous prosecution of your studies. 
 
 QBorft. 
 
 Even when, in your hospital work, you are 
 brought face to face with the ravages of disease 
 and the havoc of accidents, your surroundings and 
 associations, airy, lightsome, and salubrious, are
 
 2O Mere nominal Christianity. 
 
 such that, enjoying health and vigour yourselves, 
 you may feel happy and thankful for the fulness 
 and efficiency of the appliances with which you 
 are enabled to cope with disease and pain, and 
 thus to promote the relief and recovery of your 
 suffering brethren. 
 
 (Bob anb (Sfofc'e fatm0. 
 
 But amidst all these advantages, is there no 
 risk of God or of God's claims being overlooked ? 
 In the present day, and even within the pale of 
 the professedly Christian Church, there is a widely 
 prevalent tendency to leave the Lord and his 
 Christ out of account, and to speak and act as if 
 it were enough to be kind and attentive and 
 dutiful one to another. Many who profess and 
 call themselves Christians are servants of Christ 
 merely in name. They say little or nothing on 
 behalf of the Master. In their intercourse with 
 their acquaintances and friends, and even with 
 the members of their own households, and in their 
 dealings with men in general, they seldom or 
 never speak of Him. The claims of Christ and 
 of Christianity seldom or never supply to them a 
 topic of serious conversation. To try to bring 
 others to the Saviour, as the woman of Samaria 
 and the Apostle Paul did, they look on as a 
 matter which forms no business of theirs. Let a 
 man be honest and honourable in his dealings 
 with others let him attain to scientific distinction 
 if he can let him be an accomplished scholar, a 
 judicious and patriotic statesman a successful
 
 Love to God. 2 1 
 
 man of business a skilful and trusty physician 
 a pleasant companion ap agreeable friend ; and 
 what more, they say, can be needed ? In such 
 religion (if religion it may be called) there is no 
 place for the first and great commandment, ^Thou 
 shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart. 
 and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and 
 with all thy strength." Such religionists put man 
 before man's Maker. God is to them as a thing- O f 
 nought They find no room for Him in his own 
 universe: they give no time to his service, and have 
 no inclination to speak of or for him. Man, and 
 man's rights, and man's talents and acquirements, 
 and man's thoughts and opinions and customs, 
 and man's researches and discoveries these are 
 to them instead of God. And they treat after the 
 same fashion Him in whom dwelleth all the fulness 
 of the Godhead bodily. When His voice and 
 His knock are sounding at the door, they leave 
 the door unopened. N I called, and ye refused : 
 I stretched out my hand and no one regarded." 
 
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 Many and various are the incitements to 
 godlessness in this busy enterprising age. Be- 
 sides those immediately connected with physical 
 science, there are others of a literary or theo- 
 logical kind, not less insidious, propagated within 
 the precincts of the Church, and put forth by 
 persons set for the defence of the Gospel. What 
 in the investigation of the text of the Scriptures 
 is sometimes vauntingly called the higher criticism,
 
 22 Christian Energy paralysed. 
 
 a criticism often based on arguments which are 
 inconclusive and shallow and contrary to the 
 testimony of history, makes such havoc of many 
 portions of the Bible as is directly subversive of 
 their trustworthiness, and consequently of Christian 
 faith. This leads to irreverence and scepticism, 
 to disbelief of the doctrines of Holy Scripture, and 
 to dogmatism on behalf of one's own unfounded 
 speculations. The hope of the Gospel, as set forth 
 in God's written word, is minimised or explained 
 away ; and the wicked are encouraged to continue 
 in their wickedness, through vain and unscriptural 
 and most mischievous hopes being held out to 
 them of ultimate deliverance hereafter. In this 
 way Christian energy is paralysed, unbelief pro- 
 moted, and incalculable damage done to the best 
 interests of religion and morality. 
 
 With lies, ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, 
 whom I [says the Lord] have not made sad ; and ye have 
 strengthened the hands of the wicked that he should not turn 
 from his wicked way. EZEKIEL 13. 22. 
 
 They have healed the hurt of my people slightly, saying, 
 Peace, peace, when there is no peace. JEREMIAH 6. 14. 
 
 They say to them who despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall 
 have peace ; and to every one who walketh in the stubbornness 
 of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you. . . . 
 I did not send these prophets, yet they ran : I did not speak 
 to them, yet they prophesied. . . . They cause my people to err 
 by their lies and by their lightness : yet I sent them not nor 
 commanded them ; therefore they shall not profit this people 
 at all, saith Jehovah. JEREMIAH 23. 17, 21, 32. 
 
 And now we come to those incitements to 
 ungodliness which are specially connected with
 
 Scientific Progress. 23 
 
 physical science. The great and rapid strides 
 made in physical science during recent years arc 
 prodigious. And not the least remarkable of 
 them are within the domain of medicine and 
 surgery. How much more accurately, through 
 patient research and investigation, are the con- 
 stitution and functions of the body now known 
 than they were last century ! In cases of disease 
 also the condition of the internal organs, dimly 
 guessed at before, is now ascertained with precision 
 through the stethoscope ; and operations formerly 
 deemed impossible, or apt, on account of their 
 intense painfulness, to be fatal, arc now performed, 
 to the saving of many lives, with ease and 
 expedition, and scarcely any pain. 
 
 And what shall be said of the progress achieved 
 by means of steam and electricity and other 
 wondrous natural agencies ? And then there are 
 the discoveries which have been made, and the 
 conclusions deduced therefrom, in geology, zoology, 
 archseology, and other great subjects. 
 
 Scientific Qrlceearc^. 
 
 How much might be said also of mechanisms 
 devised by the skill of man, with the view of 
 facilitating scientific research, and bringing the 
 constituents of the material universe more fully 
 and effectually into his service than they were 
 before. The telescope, the microscope, the tele- 
 graph, the telephone, the electric light, the spectro- 
 scope, the steam - engine, photography, and 
 numerous other important mechanical and scientific 
 agencies might be mentioned.
 
 24 Misrepresentations. 
 
 l$e Qfleeufte of ^ctenttftc 
 
 And what are the results with reference to the 
 Bible and to that religion of which the Bible is the 
 charter and the exponent ? Ancient systems of 
 pagan philosophy and theology have retreated 
 before the light of advancing science, and have 
 fallen into deserved oblivion and contempt. Does 
 Christianity run any risk of a similar result? 
 No verily. They who have their feet on the rock 
 and the new song in their mouth, and who have 
 experienced what it is to believe in Jesus, and thus 
 to become children of God, may well say, in the 
 full assurance of faith, ' We will not fear though 
 the Earth be removed/ Psalm 46. 2. 
 
 f (JUftgton. 
 
 Two points however may here be noticed in 
 which the interests of religion suffer in the one 
 case from the gratuitous and insidious influences 
 of non-Christian scientific men, who make it 
 evident that they have not devoutly studied the 
 Bible, and are ignorant of the cardinal doctrines of 
 Christianity and in the other case from the inju- 
 dicious attitude of well-meaning but uninformed 
 Christians, who, in their ign'orance of the facts of 
 science and in their undiscriminating zeal for the 
 truth of the divine oracles, make short work of 
 whatever scientific deductions seem to them to be 
 in conflict with the Scriptures. They thus indulge 
 in a wholesale denunciation of such subjects as 
 evolution and geology, in a way which shows that 
 they understand neither the one nor the other,
 
 Biblical and Scientific Facts. 2 5 
 
 Hence, so far from conciliating the respectful 
 attention of scientific men, they are apt to bring 
 reproach upon sacred truth, and thus to spoil their 
 own case, and to retard those sacred interests to 
 which they are attached, and the defence of which, 
 if judiciously conducted, is impregnable. 
 
 A book pervaded by blunders in physical science, 
 like many of the books of pagan religions, could 
 not reasonably be accepted as authoritative in 
 matters of religion and morals, or as a revelation 
 from the Creator and Governor of the universe. 
 The Bible indeed is not and does not profess to 
 be a scientific treatise on astronomy or physiology, 
 or any other branch or branches of physical 
 science. But it certainly does profess to record 
 numerous truths which are within the domain of the 
 physical sciences, and which cannot be impugned 
 without affecting its trustworthiness. Indeed the 
 opening sentence of Holy Scripture, so far from 
 countenancing the idea that the Bible is no 
 authority in scientific matters, refutes that idea at 
 the very threshold, for it announces with divine 
 conciseness and simplicity that infinitely sublime 
 truth which is at once a scientific fact and a theo- 
 logical doctrine, N In the beginning God created 
 the Heavens and the Earth/ 
 
 And so, my friends, there permeates the written 
 word, penetrating it through and through as a 
 ray of powerful heavenly sunshine, that great 
 fundamental truth of which the very first verse is
 
 X 
 
 26 Erroneous Ideas and Representations. 
 
 the keynote, even the grand and glorious doctrine 
 that ^of Him and through Him and unto Him are 
 all things." 
 
 I am Jehovah, and there is none else : I form light and create 
 darkness : I make peace and create evil : I Jehovah do all these 
 things. The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters : the God of 
 glory thundereth : Jehovah is upon many waters. The gods of 
 the nations are idols ; but Jehovah made the Heavens. The sea is 
 His ; and he made it ; and his hands formed the dry land. Thou 
 rulest the raging of the sea : when the waves thereof arise, thou 
 stillest them. He causeth his sun to rise on the evil and on the 
 good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 
 
 O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom thou hast 
 made them all : the Earth is full of thy riches. Thou hast 
 possessed my reins : thou hast covered me in my mother's womb : 
 I will thank thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : 
 marvellous are thy works ; and that my soul knoweth right well. 
 
 QfUfatton 
 
 To speak as if the theologian and the scientist 
 might each pursue his subject independently of 
 the other, without the possibility of either har- 
 mony or antagonism, implies a misunderstand- 
 ing either of science or of theology, or of both. 
 A scientist may attribute to the Bible erroneous 
 views which it does not teach ; or a theologian 
 may represent certain deductions of science 
 which are quite consistent with the Scriptures 
 as being in conflict with them. A theologian 
 may come into collision with true science ; and 
 this actually did occur in the case of Galileo. But 
 in such a case the theology is at fault. Nowhere 
 does Holy Scripture teach or imply that the Sun 
 revolves around the Earth ; and to assert that 
 such is the teaching of the Scriptures would be
 
 Science and Theology. 2 ~ 
 
 like asserting that Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton 
 believed this, if they spoke, as doubtless they did 
 speak, of the phenomena of sunrise and sunset. 
 
 Indeed the Bible, so far from being silent or mis- 
 leading as to the facts of Astronomy, is far ahead 
 of the astronomical notions of the times in which it 
 was written. For instance the Latin word Fir- 
 mament, originating, as it seems to have done, in 
 the unscientific idea of a solid canopy overhead, is 
 alien to the phraseology of the Scriptures in such 
 passages as Genesis 1. 6-8, where all that is meant 
 by the word translated Firmament is, not some- 
 thing firm or solid, but something stretched out, 
 an expanse. x He stretcheth out the heavens as a 
 curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell 
 in/ So likewise the ancient Ptolemaic theory 
 of the Earth and the Sun, in their relations to 
 one another, derives no countenance from the 
 language of the Scriptures, which points, not in 
 the direction of the false theory, but in the direc- 
 tion of the true ; for, so far back as the Book of Job 
 (26. 7), we find the remarkable and scientifically 
 accurate announcement, far in advance of the as- 
 tronomical ideas then prevalent, * He stretcheth 
 out the North over empty space, and hangeth the 
 Earth upon nothing/ 
 
 On the other hand a scientist may come into 
 collision with true theology ; but in this case what 
 he promulgates is not scientific truth, but the op- 
 posite. This may occur, and it has occurred, when 
 scientists, indulging in mere speculation, and with- 
 out any proof or evidence for their conclusions, 
 announce as scientific facts statements incom-
 
 28 Luke the Beloved Physician. 
 
 patible with the teaching of God's written word. 
 He who, in the strength of Christian faith, receives 
 the Scriptures as God's revelation (and to do this 
 is far less akin to credulity than to reject them is) 
 may rest assured that there can be no real incom- 
 patibility between the testimony of God's Works 
 and the testimony of his Word, and that alleged 
 contradictions result from the fallibility and self- 
 conceit and hasty conclusions of men. 
 
 anb 
 
 Herein the testimony of Holy Scripture, in 
 connection with the special subject of your pro- 
 fessional studies as medical students, is peculiarly 
 interesting and instructive. How thoroughly 
 consistent with the facts of physiology are the 
 statement that man's breath is in his nostrils, 
 and the specific references to the structure and 
 functions of the bones and sinews. Further, you 
 may well be encouraged and stimulated by the 
 fact which gives a special interest to the largest 
 of the four Gospels and to the Acts of the Apostles, 
 that the gifted author of these two historic treat- 
 ises, was H Luke, the beloved physician/ one of the 
 most learned of the contributors to the New Testa- 
 ment Scriptures. His brief scientific allusions are 
 minutely accurate. The statement in Luke 8. 23, 
 N There came down a storm of wind on the lake/ 
 points with concise precision to the meteoro- 
 logical cause of the origin of such storms as the 
 one he is describing. His references in Acts 3. 7, 
 to the feet and ankle bones of the lame man
 
 The Human Body. 29 
 
 whom Peter cured, and in 28. 8, to the fever 
 and dysentery of the sick man in Melita whom Paul 
 cured, are references of one who evidently knew 
 well what he was writing about. 
 
 So likewise, how accurate and instructive, from 
 an anatomical or physiological point of view, are 
 the analogies traced by the Apostle Paul between 
 the structure and functions of the human body and 
 that spiritual body of which Christ is the Head ; 
 "'from whom," says the Apostle, ^all the body fitly 
 framed and knit together through every joint of 
 the supply, according to the working in due 
 measure of each several part, maketh the increase 
 of the body unto the building up of itself in love/ 
 Ephesians 4. 16. 
 
 In similar terms the same Apostle cautions the 
 saints and faithful brethren in Christ in Colossa; 
 (2. 19) against persons who walk by sight rather 
 than by faith, and who accordingly, being vainly 
 puffed up by their fleshly mind, do A not hold fast 
 the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied 
 and knit together through the joints and bands, 
 increaseth with the increase of God/ 
 
 Still further, in I Corinthians 12. 18, Paul 
 announces the great fact which, in different 
 language but with substantially the same mean- 
 ing, is set forth in our text, and which lies at the 
 basis of Nature and of Nature's Laws, in so far as 
 the structure and functions of the human frame 
 are concerned, ^ God hath set the members each 
 one of them in the body, even as it pleased Him.'
 
 ^ 
 
 30 Facts and Theories. 
 
 In further illustration of our subject, it may be 
 observed that the scientific doctrine of evolution 
 contains much which is true, and which has been 
 demonstrated beyond the possibility of reasonable 
 controversy. Some of the simplest and home- 
 liest proofs of evolution are seen in the special 
 culture of plants and animals by the gardener and 
 the zoologist, and in that marked difference be- 
 tween different specimens of the same species of 
 amphibious animals which is consequent on differ- 
 ences in their nurture, and in the nature of the 
 localities where they are found. Much depends 
 on whether they live in light or in comparative 
 darkness in water or chiefly on dry land. 
 
 These are proved facts, not mere speculations. 
 But when any theory of evolution is propounded, 
 the acceptance of which involves the rejection of 
 the great scriptural doctrine that God fashioned 
 man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his 
 nostrils the breath of life, and that man thereupon 
 became a living soul, such a theory may be viewed 
 as vaguely inferential and speculative, with no 
 substratum of proved facts to rest upon. 
 
 Devout Christians, who delight in scientific 
 studies, and accept the demonstrated truths of 
 science as verified facts, need have no uneasiness 
 in this matter, for they are well aware that no 
 theory of evolution which is incompatible with 
 the first or the second chapter of Genesis has 
 ever been proved to be true.
 
 Reasoning from Analogy. 31 
 
 monefrafton anb Conjecture. 
 
 Such theories as the one specially associated 
 with the name of Charles Darwin are mostly mere 
 conjectures. They are not like seen or demon- 
 strated facts of science, such as the inferences 
 which, between forty and fifty years ago, led two 
 astronomers, each independently of the other, the 
 one in England and the other in France,to announce 
 with mathematical certainty the existence and 
 position of the planet Neptune, which no astro- 
 nomer had up to that time seen. Certain observed 
 features in the planetary movements of Uranus 
 could be accounted for only on the ground of the 
 existence of another planet in the Solar System, 
 at a great distance beyond the orbit of Uranus. 
 This was not Analogy but Demonstration. 
 
 Yet even in Astronomy, intimately connected 
 as it is with the certainties of mathematical truth, 
 reasoning from analogy is often insufficient. 
 What analogy, for instance, could have proved 
 the existence of the rings of Saturn, or the un- 
 usual direction in which the satellites of Uranus 
 move ? So in like manner the proportionate 
 distances of the several planets from the Sun, 
 in accordance with what is called Bode's Law, led 
 Kepler to assign a planet of considerable dimen- 
 sions to a supposed orbit in the vast space between 
 the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Yet ultimately 
 the discovery, not of a large planet, but first of 
 one comparatively small asteroid, and then of 
 another, and another, and another, proved the 
 existence of a state of matters very different from
 
 3 2 Conjecture. 
 
 that which Kepler, when reasoning from analog}-, 
 had conjectured. At the same time, however, it 
 supplied an analogy of a different kind, which 
 may well lead us to estimate at their true value the 
 taunts of unbelievers, as they make light of the 
 first chapter of Genesis, or of such apostolic de- 
 scriptions of what will take place hereafter in the 
 history of our globe as that contained in 2 Peter 
 3. 10, where the apostle says of the day of the 
 Lord, which will come as a thief, that therein 
 the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, 
 and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent 
 heat, and the earth and the works which are 
 therein shall be burned up. 
 
 Any attempt to account for the phenomena of 
 the asteroids must be merely conjectural. But this 
 may be said that if, in a past era, a planet like the 
 one conjectured by Kepler was really in existence, 
 and if it was subjected to a process like that de- 
 scribed in the said passage, then such a fact would 
 amply account for the existence of the asteroids, 
 as they now appear in the Solar System. 
 
 The tremendous seismic convulsions and catas- 
 trophes which, within the brief space of one day, 
 have occasionally occurred in historic times, some 
 of them not far distant in the past, are amply 
 sufficient to satisfy a reasonable mind as to the 
 extensive terrestrial changes described in the 
 first chapter of Genesis, and also to show us the 
 comparative littleness of our knowledge, and the 
 folly of being like them of whom it is recorded 
 in I Timothy 1. 7 that they understand neither 
 what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
 
 Demonstrated Facts of Geology. 
 
 As to Geology, it has been demonstrated that 
 the stratification of the Earth's Crust is not 
 the result of one great creative act done in a 
 moment or in a day, but is the gradual work or 
 growth of ages, compared with which the thou- 
 sands of years during which the earth has been 
 peopled by man are incomparably small. It has 
 been pertinently observed that to call this in 
 question, and to view the geological strata of the 
 earth as if, within the brief space of a week, they 
 had been fashioned as they now appear, is as un- 
 reasonable as it would be to infer that some 
 ancient building, the origin of which is lost in 
 obscurity, had been created as it now stands. 
 
 But is there in the first chapter of Genesis or 
 elsewhere in the Bible anything which impugns the 
 demonstrated facts of Geology ? No verily. Yet in 
 former times men put into the simple and sublime 
 narrative a meaning which it does not contain. 
 And in more recent times, when the facts of 
 Geology are shown to be indisputable, men with 
 greater knowledge and therefore greater inexcuse- 
 ableness, speak as if that wonderful chapter were 
 in conflict with geological facts, and as if accord- 
 ingly a figurative meaning must be assigned to it, 
 as if the six days were not six days at all, but six 
 geological epochs an interpretation incongruous, 
 unbiblical, and preposterous on the very face of it. 
 Be the epochs of Geology what they may, they 
 belong, not to the brief period of the six days, but 
 to the boundless preceding ages.
 
 X 
 
 34 Construction and Arrangement 
 
 fer of <5cnc0te. 
 
 Man in his ignorance and superficial study of 
 the Scriptures, reasoned as if the Bible teaches, 
 not only that the present order and arrangement 
 of things had been accomplished in six days by 
 the fiat of the Almighty, but as if the whole Uni- 
 verse had been created and organised within that 
 short space of time. Yet what was the result 
 when the researches of geologists showed that this 
 is impossible ? The result was, not that the first 
 chapter of Genesis was found to be literally untrue 
 or scientifically inaccurate, but that men had 
 misinterpreted the chapter, and had assigned to its 
 words a meaning which they could not bear. 
 The first and the second verse, so far from being 
 in one paragraph with the third, which describes the 
 introduction of light into this dark world on the 
 first day, were seen to be separated from the third 
 verse, and from each other, by intervals no man 
 knows how great The written word informs us 
 that God did indeed on the second day arrange 
 and adjust the waters, and that on the third day 
 he caused the dry land to appear, and called it 
 Earth. But the second verse shows that the 
 waters and the earth were in existence no man 
 can tell how long before either the second or the 
 first day began. And this biblical fact is precisely 
 what the stratification of the aqueous rocks con- 
 firms. s The Earth was waste and void; and 
 darkness was upon the face of the deep ; and the 
 Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
 
 The Blanks of Natitral History. 3 5 
 
 In this wonderful verse and in the undeclared 
 and incalculable interval between it and the first 
 verse there is ample room for all the epochs of 
 geology, whether they require thousands or myriads 
 or millions of years. 
 
 N Between the first and the second, and between the 
 second and the third verses of the biblical history of the 
 creation/ says Kurtz, as quoted by Dr. Pusey in his 
 deeply interesting treatise on Daniel the Prophet, 
 ^ revelation leaves two great white pages on which 
 human science may write what it will, in order to fill 
 up the blanks of natural history. Of each of these 
 pages revelation has given only a summary table of 
 contents. How long the creation in the first verse 
 lasted, what evolutions and revolutions took place down 
 to the state of things described in the second verse, it says 
 nothing. Let human science fill up the void if it can. 
 As to the second page, what influences the Spirit of God, 
 which brooded over the waters, had upon them, what 
 operations and formations it called forth in them, revela- 
 tion says not. It has, in the superscription of the two 
 pages, laid an ever firm and immovable foundation, 
 which leaves none for Atheism or Pantheism/ 
 
 How miserably poor and radically defective 
 must be any scientific system or theory which, in 
 exhibiting scientific facts and phenomena, takes 
 no notice of Him who is the maker of all things, 
 which exhibits the works, but says nothing of the 
 divine worker, and leaves it to be inferred that 
 possibly there was no intelligent personal worker 
 at all, and that by mere chance or haphazard things 
 have become what they are !
 
 36 faith and Credulity. 
 
 0c lEjuman 
 
 So likewise when we think of the human body, 
 which you, as medical students, have chosen for the 
 grand central theme of your professional studies 
 not to speak of the animal creation at large, or 
 of the wonderful mechanism of the hugest sea- 
 monsters and the tiniest insects when we think 
 of the human body, how can we explain or account 
 for its various parts in their respective positions, 
 and structures, and functions, and in the manifold 
 work assigned to them ? how, but in the manner 
 set forth in our text ? H I will thank thee, for I am 
 fearfully and wonderfully made/ N The hearing 
 ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even 
 both of them/ 
 
 To maintain that any chance collocation of 
 atoms or of circumstances could have originated the 
 human frame, either as it is, or in some other form 
 from which it has somehow been fortuitously de- 
 veloped or evolved, makes a much greater demand 
 on one's capacities of belief than does the state- 
 ment already quoted from the second chapter of 
 Genesis, verse seventh, that God fashioned man 
 of dust from the ground. As well might we ex- 
 pect a compositor to produce a learned treatise by 
 simply picking up and arranging types at random, 
 with no manuscript to direct him. 
 
 In illustration of this point, the following lines, 
 from a lovely poetic description of the NigJitin- 
 gale by Fulbert, bishop of Chartres, who lived
 
 God the source of all. 37 
 
 about a thousand years ago, may be quoted, as 
 translated from the Latin original by the late 
 Dr. John Mason Neale, author of Jerusalem the 
 Golden, and various other sacred songs : 
 
 Night and day, from bush and greenwood, sweeter than an earthly 
 
 lyre, 
 She, unwearied songstress, carols, distancing the feathered choir 
 
 Fills the hillside, fills the valley, bids the groves and thickets ring, 
 Made indeed exceeding glorious through the joyousness of Spring. 
 
 None could teach such heavenly music, none implant such 
 
 tuneful skill, 
 Save the King of realms celestial, who doth all things as 
 
 He will. 
 
 Concfueton. 
 
 Happy we if we look from Nature up to Nature's 
 God, and if, setting the Lord always before us, 
 we can say in joyful confidence, H Because he is at 
 my right hand, I shall not be moved/ While we 
 admire the works, let us adore the divine worker, 
 making it our constant aim, whether we eat or 
 drink, or whatsoever we do, to do all to his -glory. 
 How necessary is it for us, if we would stand fast 
 in the faith, and quit ourselves like men, strong in 
 the grace which is in Christ Jesus, to be proof 
 against the fascinations of intellectual pride, and 
 agnosticism, and unbelief, and to feel with the 
 Apostle Paul when he said with a different re- 
 ference, ^None of these things move me" (Acts 
 20. 24). Thus may we make it evident that our 
 faith stands, not in the wisdom of men, but in the
 
 38 Christian Manliness. 
 
 power of God, resting, not on fickle unreasoning 
 credulity, but on the firm basis of God's truth. 
 
 If we thus prize the truth of the Gospel, we must 
 be ready to speak for Christ, and to work for Him, 
 and to proclaim his truth to others. If we have 
 learned to stand fast in the faith, and to glory in 
 the Saviour's Cross, then our life will be charac- 
 terised by the sweetest freedom and brightened 
 by the most glorious prospects. 'If ye continue 
 in my word," said Jesus, N then verily ye are my 
 disciples ; and ye shall know the truth ; and the 
 truth shall make you free. ... If the Son make 
 you free, ye shall be free indeed." Slaves of 
 doubt and scepticism and unbelief, disdaining the 
 testimony which God has given of himself and of 
 his Son, may treat Christian faith as a thing of 
 nought, and, when thinking of the future, may 
 think of it as enveloped in impenetrable obscurity. 
 Whereas they who, having gained Christ, are 
 found in Him, have been taught to wait for his 
 second coming with intensest joy, and to say in 
 the happy assurance of Christian faith and hope 
 and triumph, 
 
 x I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have 
 believed, and am persuaded that He is able to 
 keep that which I have committed unto him 
 against that day." 
 
 H We know that when He shall appear, we shall 
 be like him, for we shall see him as he is."
 
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 (Translated from Martensen's Christian Dogmatics.) 
 
 Dogmatic theology treats of the doctrines of the 
 Christian faith held by the community of believers. . . . 
 A dogma is not an indefinite vague notion ; nor is it a 
 mere truth of reason. It is a truth of faith, derived 
 from the authority of the word and revelation of God 
 a positive truth, positive, not merely by virtue of the 
 positiveness with which it is laid down, but also by 
 virtue of the authority with which it is sealed. . . . 
 Dogmatic theology does not make doubt its starting- 
 point. It is developed, not out of the void of scepticism, 
 but out of the fulness of faith. ... It springs out of the 
 perennial juvenile vigour of faith, out of the capacity of 
 faith to unfold from its own depths a wealth of treasures 
 of wisdom and knowledge, and to build up a kingdom 
 of acknowledged truths, by which it illuminates itself 
 as well as the surrounding world. A mind starved by 
 doubt has never been able to produce a dogmatic 
 system. If we look at the great theologians who 
 rank in this department as masters and models at 
 Athanasius, Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, 
 or at the Reformers and their successors, we find that 
 it was Faith which moved and impelled them to their 
 work that, in their meditations and studies, they were 
 not wandering about in the uncertainty of doubt, but 
 stood firm in the certainty of faith. 
 
 crasa toitljeretf) ; tf>e Hotoer fafcetl) ; but tfjc toort 
 of our (Sou 0f?all stanU for etoer.
 
 40 Nature and Grace. 
 
 H&oration. 
 
 Worship Jehovah in the beauty of holiness. PSALM 29. 2. 
 
 All thy works shall praise thee, O Jehovah ; and thy saints 
 shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, 
 and shall talk of thy power. PSALM 145. 10-11. 
 
 God is a spirit ; and they who worship Him must worship in 
 spirit and in truth. JOHN 4. 24. 
 
 (By Sir Robert Grant, 1785-1838.) 
 
 O worship the King, all-glorious above ! 
 O gratefully sing his power and his love ! 
 Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days, 
 Pavilioned in splendour, and girded with praise. 
 
 O tell of his might, O sing of his grace, 
 Whose robe is the light, whose canopy space ! 
 His chariots of wrath deep thunder-clouds form ; 
 And dark is his path on the wings of the storm. 
 
 The earth with its store of wonders untold, 
 Almighty, Thy power hath founded of old 
 Hath stablished it fast by a changeless decree, 
 And round it hath cast, like a mantle, the sea. 
 
 Thy bountiful care, what tongue can recite ? 
 It breathes in the air it shines in the light : 
 It streams from the hills it descends to the plain r 
 And sweetly distils in the dew and the rain. 
 
 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, 
 In Thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail : 
 Thy mercies how tender ! how firm to the end ! 
 Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend ! 
 
 Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty, 
 at the Edinburgh University Press.